This is a page dedicated to ideas for history teachers concerned with the upcoming changes in curriculum/Keystones
WE DO WANT TO HAVE A SAY IN THE FUTURE OF PENN MANOR'S SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM

If they really are looking at the NY Regents exam to structure history, let's look

HERE'S THE NYC SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

NYChsscopeandsequence.pdf
9th grade: Global
10th grade: Global
11th grade: US history and government
12th grade: Civics or Geography or Economics

HERE'S NYC SCOPE AND SEQUENCE FOR 7th and 8th grade

SocStudScopeSeq.pdf
7th grade: Native Americans until Civil War and Reconstruction
8th grade: Industrialism to WWII and local history

The outline on the NY Regents for US History is MORE LIKE a GOVERNMENT TEST with US History snapshots
http://www.nysedregents.org/USHistoryGov/home.html
http://regentsprep.org/regents/ushisgov/ushisgov.cfm

The 9th and 10th grade year serve as GEOGRAPHY and WORLD HISTORY
http://www.nysedregents.org/GlobalHistoryGeography/

They even started giving a test in 8th grade - with DBQs
http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/SocialStudies/home.html

West Chester
https://docs.google.com/a/student.pennmanor.net/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KXagpdRhBJAJ:www.wcasd.net/pdfs/Keystone_Exams_Newsletter.pdf+keystone+exams+social+studies+pacing&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjfS-UIteldB11T8Ks-Xupu5Qc8wC3SPvBRSiar_NrSa7bEPkByiPXNMW65cYUD_AWhK0o_QHM2oKmT9wr-untwbw2ToV2z4VT7xDme1xZqGWLxBWgq0hATU-ArNdEUfe7EGaR6&sig=AHIEtbRzJRMhadMRdmPGv7Zyw-82M5BCyA